Thursday, August 07, 2008

We continue to see an alarming number of spam messages pretending to be from CNN, with the subject "CNN.com Daily Top 10". Approximately 6% of our spam messages are currently part of this campaign.

The spam messages contain graphics which are actually being loaded from the real CNN website. We'll load them here from the same site so you can see them. These are the graphics present in each of the spam emails, fetched directly from the CNN website, just like the current spam campaign, lending to the credibility of the spam.

There are now more than 190 URLs being used to spread the malware. While the earliest versions of the malware URL all used the path "index2.html", the malware now also is hosted on the paths "cnnlive.html", "cnnnews.html", "cnntop.html", and "cnnvideo.html".

There are now 162 servers hosting 192 paths which have been involved in this attack. Each of these servers had the malicious content uploaded to it by a hacker. Most of these are legitimate websites which were hosting real webpages before they were compromised for this purpose. Because the malicious contents are not interfering with the primary use of the server, in many cases the webmasters were not even aware of the compromise.

*WE DESIRE TO SPEAK TO ANY ADMINISTRATOR WHO CAN PROVIDE LOG FILES FROM ONE OR MORE OF THESE COMPROMISED SERVERS*

An astounding number of fake headlines have been used as lures. Each spam email message contains ten of these headlines listed as "Top Stories" and ten more of these headlines listed as "Top Videos".

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